Budget 2020: UGC seeks higher allocation for education
The UGC, whose mandate includes promoting and coordinating university education, is taking steps to improve the quality in higher education institutions (HEIs), he said. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has been undertaking efforts to make higher education relevant to the societal and national needs, its chairman D P Singh said.
Budget 2020: How India can fix its education system and save its Demographic Dividend
The future of work will be coded by digitisation, creativity and emotional intelligence and we need to ensure that the education we provide our children is in sync with the changing times. We need to acknowledge that there exists a huge gap in what skills we aspire to impart and what we are currently providing through the Indian education system.
Budget 2020: UGC seeks higher allocation for education
UGC chairman D P Singh said it has been undertaking efforts to make higher education relevant to the societal and national needs. Singh said the UGC has requested the Centre to allocate more funds for education in the upcoming Union budget for 202021.
40k educational institutes to get accredited by 2022
As many as 25,000 higher education institutes in the country are bereft of accreditation as they are simply not ready to undergo the process from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council
Budget 2020: Time to strengthen future of Indian education
Upskilling and reskilling have become a fad lately. One of the biggest challenges India currently faces is to provide livelihoods to the educated youth and decent wages for the working classes in the organised and unorganised sectors. Automation has revolutionised industry and it has become imperative to attain the right skills in order to stay relevant in the competitive market.
70% of higher edu institutions in state are not accredited: NAAC director
Sharma, who was in the city on Monday to participate in the inauguration of Bharat Ratna Prof CNR Rao Research Centre at Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, told reporters that higher education institutions including engineering colleges, arts and science colleges in Tamil Nadu were lagging behind in getting the NAAC accreditation.
Enrolment ratio in higher education to be almost doubled in 10 years: HRD Minister
Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Sunday said the government has set an ambitious target of achieving a 50 per cent gross enrolment ratio (GER) as compared to the current 26.5 per cent in higher education by 2030 to equip the working population with employable skills.
Budget 2020 Expectations: Heres what NBFCs, education financing companies are expecting from Budget
The 2019 Interim Budget announced an increase of 10 per cent in the education budget, for nationwide academic development. Similar changes are expected which will bring in more financial support to the education sector. Bringing in more technology in the classroom environments and introducing AI (artificial intelligence) with mainstream education are some of the major changes that can be brought.
Why we need to revamp higher edu right now
The two issues of significant interest that currently loom over the higher education scenario in India are the phenomenal numbers of high school graduates produced by the country annually and the relevance of what we provide to them in terms of higher education.
These two ideas of UGC may reform education in India, liberate students
The UGC has finalised in idealevel two new programmes to reform higher education in the country national academic credit bank and semester outreach programme and formed teams to frame regulations for the same, said University Grants Commission vice chairman Bhushan Patwardhan on Wednesday.